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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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01Undated

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

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02Undated

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

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03Undated

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

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04Undated

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

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05Undated

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

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06Undated

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.

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07Undated

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

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08Undated

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

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09Undated

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

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10Undated

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

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11Undated

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

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12Undated

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

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13Undated

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

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14Undated

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

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15Undated

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

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17Undated

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

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18Undated

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

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19Undated

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

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20Undated

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

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23Undated

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

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24Undated

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

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